BARKER, Cicely MarySpring Songs with Music from 'Flower Fairies of the Spring'London Blackie & Son Ltd Hard Cover Good Fair Undated ediition. Paper backed boards with blue spine, blue lettering and pictorial onlay depicting the Speedwell Fairy, in pictorial dustwrapper; music by Olive Linnell; twelve tipped in colour ills by the author. Boards rather bowed with lean to spine and rubbed corners; foxing and brown strips to endpapers; foxing to page block edges. Dustwrapper is a little grubby with small stain to front panel; rubbing, chipping, creasing and several tears to edges and corners, now in removable sleeve.
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40.00 GBP

DODD, CraigBallet: First Steps to First Night: A Three-Dimensional BookLondon Simon & Schuster 1988 0671699024 / 9780671699024 First Edition Hard Cover Near Very Good SOAR, Shirley Glazed pictorial boards; 14pp; four doublepage pop-ups; paper engineering by Ruth Graham. Pages undulate due to thickness of pop-ups and are toned with occasional light mark; pop-ups all in good order. From ballet school to Swan Lake, see the world of ballet for the first time in three dimensions.
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8.00 GBP

HADDON, CeliaGreat Days & Jolly Days: The Story of Girls School SongsHodder & Stoughton 1977 0340222301 / 9780340222300 First Edition Hard Cover Near Very Good Fair Navy cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 128pp; b/w ills; foreword by Joyce Grenfell. Sunning to upper edge of cloth; toning to pages, which are a little musty. Unclipped dustwrapper has a number of chips and tears with small triangular loss to upper edge of front panel. Haddon recaptures the world of girls' education over a hundred years and more.
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8.00 GBP

JENNS, Tim & COPE, Dawn & PeterChristmas Carols for Young Children with the Christmas StoryLondon Fine Books 1976 085920037 First Edition Hard Cover Near Very Good Near Very Good LE MAIR, Henriette Willebeek Landscape glazed pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper; 32pp; colour ills. Slight lean to spine; scattered foxing and tanning to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed and lightly creased to edges and scuffed to surface. A collection of 12 beautiful illustrations of the Nativity, each coupled to a traditional Christmas Carol.
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25.00 GBP

MARKS, JeannetteThe Cheerful Cricket and Others with TunesLondon George Allen 1907 Hard Cover Good to Fair BROWN, Edith Pictorial blue cloth boards (265mm x 210mm); unpaginated; colour ills to chapter title pages plus decorative borders to text. Cloth rubbed to corners and spine ends with small bump to fore-edge; previous owner name partially erased to front endpaper; light foxing and browning to endpapers and prelims; illustration to half-title page has some pen marks; rear endpaper has pen scribbles and grubby marks. A collection of stories about small animals and insects with a song after every chapter. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.
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40.00 GBP

MILNE, A.A.Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very YoungLondon Methuen & Co Ltd 1925 Hard Cover Good SHEPARD, E.H. Third edition. Brown boards with cloth spine and title label pasted to front. no dustwrapper; 34pp; b/w ills to scores; music by H. Fraser-Simson. Boards cracked and worn to corners with small losses to paper covering in places; offset tanning to endpapers; Includes verse and musical scores to 14 songs including 'Buckingham Palace', 'Missing' and 'Halfway Down'.
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15.00 GBP

REES, AnnA Ladybird Book of Musical InstrumentsLoughborough Wills & Hepworth 1966 Hard Cover Very Good AYTON, Robert Small format matt pictorial boards; colour ills. Tanning to spine with rubbing and bumping to spine ends and edges and light age marking to cover. Ladybird Series 662 with tally number 160 and original price of 2/6 net to reverse of front endpaper.
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5.00 GBP

SERRAILLIER, IanThe Midnight ThiefLondon Mills Music Paperback Good FLAX, Zena Stapled paper covers; 21pp; b/w and two-tone ills; musical score by Richard Rodney Bennett. Ex-school library with stamp to front cover; rubbing to cover edges; occasional grubby mark and thumbing to pages. A Mexican folk story set to music commissioned for the BBC's Making Music Series in 1963.
Price:
12.00 GBP